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Purpose

Fix two bugs that break audio inputs for Gemma4UnifiedForConditionalGeneration
(google/gemma-4-12B-it):

  1. EngineCore crash on multi-audio requests with different clip lengths.
    Gemma4MultiModalProcessor._call_hf_processor deliberately stores each
    audio's features unpadded (so processor-cache entries are independent of the
    batch they were co-processed with), but MultiModalFieldConfig.batched()
    does not re-pad ragged items at batch time — it yields a plain Python list,
    on which _process_audio_input called .squeeze(1):
    AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'squeeze' inside
    EngineCore.execute_model → EngineDeadError, killing the server. A single
    audio (or equal-length audios) takes the tensor fast path, which is why this
    only bites with ≥2 clips of different durations — e.g. a long call recording
    chunked into <30s pieces.

  2. Wrong audio placeholder count for the unified (encoder-free) variant.
    The unified model inherits the tower variant's mel+conv sequence-length
    arithmetic (_compute_audio_num_tokens), but its HF processor inserts
    exactly ceil(samples / 640) audio tokens (one per 640-sample frame, no
    downsampling — Gemma4UnifiedProcessor.replace_audio_token uses
    input_features_mask.sum()). The two formulas diverge by one token whenever
    samples % 640 ∈ [1, 160] (25% of arbitrary lengths): with the processor
    cache enabled the surplus trailing embedding is silently dropped
    (quality degradation, no error); with --mm-processor-cache-gb 0 the
    placeholder sequence match fails and the request errors out.

Changes:

  • gemma4_mm.py: new _pad_ragged_audio_features() applied in
    _parse_and_validate_audio_input — re-pads ragged lists to the batch max and
    rebuilds the mask at the single parse point shared by the tower and unified
    models, covering both within-request and cross-request grouping
    (group_and_batch_mm_kwargs batches audio items from different requests into
    one forward). Corrected the stale comment claiming batched() re-pads, and
    removed the .squeeze(1) no-ops (they corrupt the s == 1 edge case, i.e.
    clips ≤ 640 samples).
  • gemma4_unified.py: Gemma4UnifiedProcessingInfo.get_audio_repl override
    computing ceil(audio_len / audio_samples_per_token), matching the HF
    processor exactly. Deliberately uncapped, mirroring HF (which neither
    truncates features nor caps placeholders); capping without truncating would
    recreate the mismatch for >30s clips.

Relationship to existing open PRs (#47459, #45887, #44546, #42573, #39459):
those address only bug 1, with the pad-and-stack normalization placed in
_process_audio_input. This PR is materially different: it additionally fixes
bug 2 (the unified-variant token-count mismatch, not touched by any of the
above), normalizes at _parse_and_validate_audio_input so both Gemma4 model
classes are covered by one code path, and adds unified-variant regression
tests. Happy to rebase/reduce the overlap if one of the sibling PRs lands
first.

Test Plan

Processor-level (CPU, no weights loaded):

pytest tests/models/multimodal/processing/test_gemma4_unified.py -v
pytest tests/models/multimodal/processing/test_gemma4.py -v

New regression tests:

  • test_audio_field_batching_repads_ragged_lengths — ragged clips through
    batched() → list → _pad_ragged_audio_features → padded tensors + mask
    (bug 1)
  • test_audio_repl_token_count_matches_hf_processor — vLLM placeholder count
    vs HF input_features_mask.sum() at L = 640k + r,
    r ∈ {0, 1, 160, 161, 639} (fails before this PR for r ∈ {1, 160}) (bug 2)
  • test_multi_audio_apply_different_lengths — two clips of different lengths
    through processor.apply; per-item feature shapes and placeholder lengths

E2E (1× RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell): vllm serve google/gemma-4-12B-it --limit-mm-per-prompt '{"image": 0, "audio": 20}', then chat completions with
multiple input_audio parts of different durations; single clips with
samples % 640 ∈ [1, 160]; repeated with --mm-processor-cache-gb 0.

Test Result

Before:

  • Any request with ≥2 different-length audios: HTTP 500 + EngineDeadError —
    the server process dies.
  • Single clip of 400080 samples (% 640 = 80) with
    --mm-processor-cache-gb 0: RuntimeError: Expected there to be 1 prompt placeholders corresponding to 1 audio items at processing time; with the
    cache enabled it "succeeds" while silently dropping the trailing embedding.
  • New pytest cases fail (AttributeError on list / off-by-one token count).

After:

  • test_gemma4_unified.py and test_gemma4.py suites pass (26 pre-existing
    tower tests green — no regression).
  • All E2E cases above return valid completions; server stays healthy.
  • Soak test on real call-center data: 184 recordings (15–312 s, chunked into
    ≤20 ×25 s clips per request, 581 audio items total) × multiple passes
    including a concurrency sweep up to 128 in-flight requests — 0 errors,
    0 engine deaths.

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@mergify mergify Bot added the multi-modality Related to multi-modality (#4194) label Jul 5, 2026
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Sidd065 force-pushed the fix-gemma4-unified-multi-audio branch from adb0244 to 8e121af Compare July 5, 2026 15:35
Two fixes for Gemma4UnifiedForConditionalGeneration audio inputs:

1. Requests with multiple audios of different lengths killed the
   EngineCore. _call_hf_processor stores per-audio features unpadded so
   cache entries are batch-independent, but MultiModalFieldConfig.batched()
   does not re-pad ragged items at batch time - it yields a plain list,
   on which _process_audio_input called .squeeze(1) (AttributeError ->
   EngineDeadError). Re-pad to the batch max in
   _parse_and_validate_audio_input via _pad_ragged_audio_features, and
   drop the .squeeze(1) no-ops that corrupt single-frame audio.

2. The unified variant inherited the tower variant's mel+conv placeholder
   count formula, which undercounts the encoder-free frame count
   ceil(L / 640) by one whenever L % 640 is in [1, 160], silently dropping
   the trailing audio embedding (or failing placeholder matching with the
   processor cache disabled). Override get_audio_repl in
   Gemma4UnifiedProcessingInfo to match the HF processor's mask.sum().

Add processor-level regression tests for ragged batching, token count
parity with the HF feature extractor, and multi-audio processing.

Co-authored-by: Claude
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Sidd065 <sidd.jml@gmail.com>
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